Quote Originally Posted by hallena View Post
No it's not.
Right now gearing an alt is only possible after you're done gearing your main. Yet if you flat out create a new character you can gear both at the same time.
It would also give more stuff for people to do instead of running coil once a week then logout until next tuesday
This. One of the biggest advantages and unique systems FFXIV has going for it over other MMOs (except XI if you count it) is that you can play multiple classes all on one character. Except in practice you actually cannot do this. Due to weekly lockouts and caps every single player has a "main job" and then a bunch of secondary ones they sometimes screw around on.